Hello guys; FWIW, the update to version 2.7.3 doesnt really bring a big difference wrt 2.6.1 but I dont think we will be able to update python further in a long while because there are extensions out there that depend on Python2.
Adding Python3 compatibility is not difficult, I think, but an interesting alternative, that people can try now, would be to build/ship AOO with PyPy : http://pypy.org/ Cheers, Pedro.